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State I Am In, The (Innere Sicherheit, Die)

For 15 years now, the parents have been leading an underground existence, hiding among the anonymous tourists on the beaches of Portugal. They have broken a taboo: they have conceived a daughter. A girl who has never swapped clothes with her friends, never skipped classes in school, camped out at lakes, got drunk and broken off with her boyfriend in ice-cream parlours. A girl who is alone.
The parents are just about to establish some sort of legal identity for themselves in Brazil, when a slight negligence causes everything to fall apart around them. And again they are on the run, which brings them back to Germany. Meanwhile, their daughter has fallen in love. A love which will lead to a tragedy and destroy the family.

Christian Petzold is one of the leading directors of recent German cinema. The German Film Critics Association has twice awarded him Best Film awards, for Ghosts (Gespenster, 2005) and The State I Am In (Die Innere Sicherheit, 2000). He was twice named Best Director at the German Film Awards, for Wolfsburg (2002) and The State I Am In, which also won Best Screenplay at Thessaloniki and the Grand Prize at Valenciennes. Petzold has also received much acclaim for his other films, including: Something to Remind Me (Toter Mann, 2002), Die Beischlafdiebin (1998), Cuba Libre (1995), Yella (2007), and Jerichow (2008) which also screened in Competition in Venice. Born in 1960, Petzold studied German and Theater Studies at the Free University in Berlin, then graduated from the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in 1994.
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2000
Director Christian Petzold
Screenplay Harun Farocki, Christian Petzold
Director of Photography Hans Fromm
Editor Bettina Boehler
Music by Stefan Will
Producer Florian Koerner von Gustorf
Production Company Schramm Film Koerner + Weber/Berlin, in co-production with ARTE/Strasbourg, HR/Frankfurt
Principal Cast Barbara Auer, Bilge Binguel, Julia Hummer, Richy Mueller
Length 100 min, 2,736 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.66
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, Italian, Spanish
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Venice 2000 , Thessaloniki 2000 (Best Screenplay Award), Rotterdam 2001, Gothenburg 2001, Berlin 2001 (New German Films)
Awards German Film Award in Gold for Best Feature 2001, Best Feature & Best Editing by the German Association of Film Critics 2002
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFoerderung Hamburg
German Distributor Pegasos Film/Frankfurt-Cologne

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